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Posted by Quaver on Fri Jul 15th at 12:53am 2005

Ive just got back from the school prom sorta thing and i won a 15' LCD tv/monitor in the raffle. Its well good, it supports up to 1024x768 @ 75 Hz as pc monitor, has tv tuner, scart input, s-video, remote and a few other inputs and outputs. I think its the first time ive ever won somthing, id say it was a good catch.

What im wondering is whats the best way to set it up along side my current monitor, they are both 15 inch. My gfx card only has 1 VGA output and a s-video, should i use the s-video or is there anougher option. When i done my work experience awhile ago i think they had VGA adapters that splits into two, are they any good?




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Posted by Senshi on Fri Jul 15th at 1:01am 2005

You could use s-video or a VGA splitter, but using the splitter, you would just have two screens displaying the same thing twice (pretty useless).
I dont know about the s-video, but i'm almost certain you would come across the same problem, your graphics card may recognise that you have two diplay adapters connected and give you the option to 'share' the display between them.
I hate to have to say it, but i doubt you would be able to get the monitors to share the display - if you have an s-video cable lying around then give it a try.



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Posted by Quaver on Fri Jul 15th at 1:07am 2005

Ive got a s-video somewhere, ill try it tommorrow if i can find it, my rooms to much of a mess. With the splitter does it not treat the monitors as one big 2048x768 rather than two 1024x768?




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Posted by Windows 98 on Fri Jul 15th at 1:43am 2005

if you had 3 monitors could you set them up like...
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and then when you play CS you could change your FOV to like 180 and see everythign that is goign on.




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Posted by wil5on on Fri Jul 15th at 2:30am 2005

Use the s-video. Most graphics cards with an s-video port should have a VGA adapter for it, so you can attach a second monitor. Then it should be a fairly simple matter setting up your new monitor to extend your desktop.


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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Jul 15th at 3:08am 2005

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Two monitors- best way to set them up

Preferably, on top of the desk.





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Posted by fraggard on Fri Jul 15th at 4:01am 2005

If the S-Video doesn't work out you can get a second (cheap/PCI) video card of some sort and plug it in. Windows should let you set them up such that the screen is properly divided and all that.

I doubt you'll be able to play a game stretched on both screens but you could have the game on one and the rest of your desktop open normally on the other for IRC/ICQ etc.




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Posted by habboi on Fri Jul 15th at 12:28pm 2005

The best way to set it up is by keeping your old one and putting the new one in a closet.



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Posted by DrGlass on Fri Jul 15th at 1:09pm 2005

You'll need a new gfx card if you want to do this (sounds like it to me) that has 2 monitor inputs, though they may be diffrent (normal pin and a diffrent kind, I dont know the name of) but you can get adaptors to fit your screens into any of the inputs.

Your not going to want to play a game over both screens, infact doul screens is almost usless unless you like to have alot of windows open at the same time OR you use Photoshop alot (you can have all your tools on one screen and a huge blank area to work in). Unless your into that kinda stuff I'd retire the lesser of the two and stick with just single screen.





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Posted by Kain on Fri Jul 15th at 1:26pm 2005

? quoting habboi
The best way to set it up is by keeping your old one and putting the new one in a closet.

You could also ditch the old one and use the new one instead. LCD is better for the eyes I think.





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Posted by Quaver on Fri Jul 15th at 11:16pm 2005

My old is LCD too. Ive got it working in a way using a s-video but the picture quality is very bad on the monitor as a result, ill look across google and see if a splitter thing will work.

I like the way it works though using nvidea's nview that comes with the drivers, the left monitor is like normal but i can drag windows across onto the right monitor and if i full screen the windows it only goes full screen in the current monitor rather then spreading through all the monitors. And then if i want to watch tv i just have to press a button and the second monitor is a tv.




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Posted by Crono on Sat Jul 16th at 12:08am 2005

That's because S-Video is a poor quality cable.

If you want the screen accross two monitors and not just doubled, you need another video card either with multi-output or not.

However, if you're using the second monitor as a TV or something as such, using the S-Video portion is pretty ideal, since it'll such poor quality TV will look good. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">


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